arXiv:2511.01982hep-phcs.LG2025-11被引 2

用软约束让模型自动学习对称性,提升高能物理分析的鲁棒性。

SEAL - A Symmetry EncourAging Loss for High Energy Physics

  • 引入可学习的对称性约束,让模型自主决定对称性重要性。
  • 在顶夸克喷注识别任务中,性能更稳定,仅需微小改动现有模型。
  • 适合高能物理、粒子探测等需物理先验的机器学习场景。

物理对称性为构建数据处理函数提供了强有力的归纳偏置,有助于提升机器学习模型的鲁棒性、数据效率和可解释性。然而,显式地让模型遵守对称性通常需要专门设计组件,且真实实验中因有限分辨率和能量阈值,对称性可能不严格成立。本文提出一种新方法:通过软约束,允许模型在学习过程中自行判断对称性的重要性,而非强制执行精确对称性。我们探索了两种互补策略:一种基于输入变换的惩罚机制,另一种受群论和无穷小变换启发。以顶夸克喷注标记和洛伦兹协变性为例,结果表明加入软约束后模型表现更鲁棒,且对现有先进模型改动极小。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Physical symmetries provide a strong inductive bias for constructing functions to analyze data. In particular, this bias may improve robustness, data efficiency, and interpretability of machine learning models. However, building machine learning models that explicitly respect symmetries can be difficult due to the dedicated components required. Moreover, real-world experiments may not exactly respect fundamental symmetries at the level of finite granularities and energy thresholds. In this work, we explore an alternative approach to create symmetry-aware machine learning models. We introduce soft constraints that allow the model to decide the importance of added symmetries during the learning process instead of enforcing exact symmetries. We investigate two complementary approaches, one that penalizes the model based on specific transformations of the inputs and one inspired by group theory and infinitesimal transformations of the inputs. Using top quark jet tagging and Lorentz equivariance as examples, we observe that the addition of the soft constraints leads to more robust performance while requiring negligible changes to current state-of-the-art models.

高能物理对称性机器学习

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